Lisa Cook NAMPIJINPA

Yarla Jukurrpa (Bush Tomato Dreaming) - Cockatoo Creek , 2022

Lisa Cook Nampijinpa, from the Yuendumu community in the Australian desert, depicts in this work the Dreaming, or Jukurrpa, of the Yarla Ancestor, a wild edible potato. This fibrous tuber grows beneath low-lying plants, often found in soil crevices,...

Debbie Brown NAPALJARRI

Wanakiji Jukurrpa (Bush Tomato Dreaming) , 2025

Debbie Brown is the “custodian” of the site where the bush tomato grows, and as such, she is responsible for performing the rituals that maintain the fertility of this area.To convey a spiritual force to the land that will support plant growth, the a...

Abie Loy KEMARRE

Bush Leaves - Optic (Red) , 2025

Abie Loy is one of the new generation of artists living in the Utopia community in the heart of the Australian desert. She began painting in 1994 on the advice of her grandmother, the renowned Kathleen Petyarre, who guided her in her first works, ins...

Abie Loy KEMARRE

Bush Hen Dreaming , 2025

Originally from Utopia in the Central Desert, Abie Loy presents here an “aerial” mental projection of her sacred country, associated with the Ancestor known as the “bush hen.” In the Dreamtime, the mythical period of the world’s creation, this Ancest...

Niah Juella MCLEOD

Bana Gugaa Waraawara - Rain on stringy bark with fishing line string , 2025

Niah Juella Mcleod is a descendant of the Monero, Wandandian and Yuin peoples of south-east Australia. She is the daughter of Kathrin Sharp, a painter, and Bobby Mcleod, an Aboriginal activist, poet, healer, musician and Yuin elder. The effect of mov...

ANONYME

Untitled , 2004?

This painting evokes the flowering of the Utopia region. The artist evokes the flowering of nature and the blossoming of plants and buds in this desert region.For the artist, evoking these plants also has a more ritualistic and obviously symbolic val...

KONSTANTINA

Mula Magalyinyara #2 , 2023

Konstantina’s work is about representing her researches and questioning of her roots and identity. Through her paintings, she wishes to make her voice heard, and above all those of Aboriginal communities.The motifs depicted on this painting represent...

Lofty BARDAYAL NADJAMERREK

Untitled , 2001

Wamud Namok is the deceased name of Lofty Bardayal Nadjamerrek. This name is a tradition among the Kunijku people of Arnhem Land.Considered one of the leading Aboriginal figurative artists, he has produced numerous representations of the territory's...